I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.
The monsters are in your own head
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Just watching my cats can make me happy.
It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.
I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.
I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.
You make me feel like a candy apple, red and horny.
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come
Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground
I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.
When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again
I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively
Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair
I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
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